It is fascinating to see solutions like Clariant's arise quickly in response to changing market conditions. Another Atlanta company, Short Sale Services, was started recently by a top tier attorney here: <a href="http://www.theshortsaleservice.com/" target="_blank">http://www.theshortsaleservice.com/ SSS begins the process of determining the lowest offer a bank will accept by initiating a low bid at the 60 days late point so, at worst, a seller has an "approved short sale" home than can close in 30 days should an offer come during the process.

You consider $22.80 an hour for 5 weeks (17.5 hours) of teaching and coaching from a team of CEOs and CFOs "steep"? Have you ever hired a lawyer or a CPA? Not to minimize the cost to come up with $399 clams, but this is a veritable bargain crash course in capital-raising from people who have done it, not from non-ivory tower types. At some point, entrepreneurs need to look at programs like this as tuition in business school. You can self-study some of this, but the live critique is not something you can get out of a book.

Epic loss to the world. You had the best images and videos of just about any blog out there. You'll create many, many more :-)